This paper is mainly intended to develop an English word list for students majoring in British drama. To achieve this goal, the following steps were taken. First, two target corpora were compiled and a reference corpus (BNC Baby) was utilized for a comparative analysis. One is Shakespeare drama corpus (SDC) including around 820,000 running words constructed from 37 plays and the other is Bernard Shaw drama corpus (BSDC) including around 930,000 running words from 31 plays. Secondly, Heatley & Nation’s (2002) Range and Scott’s (2015) WordSmith 6.0 were comparatively operated to adopt a more appropriate program for analyzing the corpora listed above. Thirdly, to extract an English word list, the programs utilized 2 most efficient criteria, frequency and range, regardless of other minor criteria, such as dispersion and familiarity. As a result, this paper extracted a total of 1,287 word families from a combined corpus of SDC and BSDC with the help of frequency (≥39 times) and range (≥30 plays). The result of analysis reveals that 1) rather than Heatley & Nation’s (2002) Range, Scott’s (2015) WordSmith 6.0 is a comparatively better program for analyzing both SDC and BSDC; 2) the created English word list helps to satisfy an essential need of students studying British drama.